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itronitron··on AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
Don't forget to add sugar when adding tea to your motor oil. You can also substitute corn syrup or maple syrup which has the added benefit of balancing the oil viscosity.
itronitron··on Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
I think it would simplify the transition for a person moving between physical media and digital, and vice versa. The mixing examples they show on the webpage for the Mixbox algorithm look real to me and make the mixing available in other programs seem incorrect.

edit: I'll add though that Mixbox doesn't seem to take actual physical pigment characteristics into account and that can radically impact pigment mixing.

itronitron··on The deadliest tsunami set off work to be ready for the next big wave
hard to believe that was twenty years ago
itronitron··on I automated my job application process
In my two decades of experience, I've never seen another software engineer implement a linked list or even use a linked list. There are better, and more interesting, questions to be asking.
itronitron··on So You Want to Write Java in Neovim
Is there a Java code assist utility for neovim that isn't a language server?
itronitron··on I automated my job application process
why would you ever task an employee to implement a LinkedList?
itronitron··on I automated my job application process
Most (not all) position descriptions for software engineers include requirements for experience with particular tools, applications, or 'frameworks'.

Would you hire a statistician that didn't have 'n' years of MS Excel experience, or had never used Pandas?

If I were a statistician with 20 years experience, would I even apply to positions listing those as requirements?

It's an interesting problem, as giving information on the position requirements clues applicants into the game they need to play and also runs the risk of turning some otherwise qualified people away.

itronitron··on Snow Signs
One might think of snowfall as a reset, providing a new canvas for the visual richness of landscape in the following year.
itronitron··on In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
It is also fair to consider that if systemic racial profiling has contributed to a person's winding up in prison, then following their release from prison that same racial profiling will put them back in prison.
itronitron··on In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
If a prisoner's work offsets the cost of them being in prison, then there is an incentive for the system to have prisoners.
itronitron··on In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
This just reflects that the parole system is broken, among other things.

This wouldn't bother me if the USA had universal basic income, public healthcare, free university education, and lower homeless rates.

itronitron··on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
I've learned two languages using just a text editor (VI or Notepad) and found that it really helped me spot typos and syntax issues early on. I keep a browser open with tabs loaded for referencing language/package docs and referencing examples. Compiler errors literally tell you where your mistakes are, which is great for learning a new language.

I definitely recommend IDEs for navigating large codebases at work, but I feel like autocomplete has gotten much worse over the past ten years, as it tends to be slower and less concise.

itronitron··on A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) (2023)
Is there a way to do that without signing in?
itronitron··on Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]
you seem to have linked an Ad
itronitron··on An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)
I'd like one strawberry tart without so much rat in it.
itronitron··on Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
This feels like it was written as a satire based on the screenplay of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
itronitron··on Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
do you know the specific term, or does your intellectual honesty prevent you from saying that you do?
itronitron··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
i recently learned about sourcehut.org which has "No AI features whatsoever"
itronitron··on Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui
If you are familiar with other native windowing toolkits (such as Motif, Qt, Swing) can you elaborate on how Dear ImGui takes a different approach?
itronitron··on Moms Carry 71% of the Mental Load
I think you can take that line of reasoning further to reach an even better place, with the goal of eliminating fretting entirely. Find alternative ways of performing tasks in order to reduce the associated anxiety, mental cost, or time it takes to complete them. What are the stressors associated with grocery shopping... other people, forgetting something, finding things, getting there? If you can pin it down then figure out an alternative approach that eliminates it.
itronitron··on Design Token-Based UI Architecture
How about instead we just start making companies smaller but have more of them?
itronitron··on What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf]
what is a systems programmer?
itronitron··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
I've had the experience of buying a prescribed medication in an EU country without local insurance, so the pharmacist had to charge me full price (and sincerely apologized for doing so) yet the full price was less than my co-pay would have been in the USA.
itronitron··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care
That's how it was described to me by several R&D staff at JnJ two decades ago.
itronitron··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care
The inefficiency is that for many pharmaceutical companies in the US, their marketing budget is much higher than (~10X) the R&D budget.
itronitron··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
GitLab is currently marketing itself as the "AI-powered DevSecOps platform" which in my view ditches it's history/brand as an open and transparent alternative to GitHub.
itronitron··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
I was at a 'techtalk' recently with over 100 attendees, where Gitlab was a sponsor and the second of two talks. Before either talk the GitLab person gave a short pitch on the whole GitLab AI developer productivity vision and how great they are.

There was a short break after the first talk concluded during which about a third of the attendees left, myself included.

itronitron··on Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
And just to be clear for those not living in the USA, the people being denied coverage by UHC are the same people paying health insurance premiums to UHC in order to have health insurance coverage.
itronitron··on Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
Where do you draw the line of it being 'just property crime' though?
itronitron··on Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
maybe stop wrecking people's lives?
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